Making Sense of the World with Words

On Saturday, August 23, my brother Jas and I drove from Wauwatosa to Sioux Falls, SD. Jas had driven this stretch of I-90 several times before, since his brother-in-law is a doctor at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. After Rochester, though, we were both in a place we had never been before.

At a rest stop, we got to see how country singles meet:

Austin, MN is the home of Hormel, the maker of Spam. While passing through, Jas and I stopped at the world’s only Spam Museum:

They had a Wall of Spam just inside the entrance:

They also had a Spam Counter, which told us how many cans of Spam had been sold since its introduction in 1937.

Brett Favre was also there, eating a burger, with a milk mustache, and wearing a Spam jersey that he had signed: